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1.69.6138 | 1896 | L: 19.5 in, width: 19.5 in | The Wild West Game | Virginia Boal Hayden Acquisition Fund purchase | top cover; THE WILD WEST GAME lower right corner; COPYRIGHTED 1896 / MC LOUGHLIN BROS. NEW YORK reverse; [directions for game] | 1.69.6138a.jpg | 1.69.6138b.jpg | rifle | stagecoach | weapons | sheild | buffalo | cavalry | horse | fort | hunter | Indian | Buffalo Bill | saber | wagon | game | cardboard | chromolithograph | The Wild West Game
At the roll of a dice, players in the Wild West game moved their pieces toward opposite ends of the board. Each player had eight lead tokens, playing as Indians and Cavalry. The circles represented peaceful encounters, while the red squares were for battles.
A special book auction to benefit the BBHC made the purchase of this rare 19th century game possible.
Chromolithograph game board and cover
Manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York
1896
Virginia Boal Hayden Acquisition Fund purchase, 1.69.6138 | McLoughlin Bros., New York

2.12 | 2007-2011 | H: 90.5 in, width: 61.75 in | The Menagerie | Gift of The Alexander Bodini Foundation in memory of Alexander Bodini | Michael Scott is a contemporary artist who currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Scott finds inspiration for this subjects and style in history, art history, and the western landscape and people near his home. In "The Menagerie", Scott imagines Buffalo Bill as the caretaker for an exotic bird menagerie. Symbolism for each bird references the personality of Buffalo Bill, who stands as the "ring leader" of the birds in the painting. The peacock, for example, is associated with vanity and therefore reflects one quality of Buffalo Bill. But in addition, the peacock is difficult bird to manage, and the way in which Buffalo Bill controls the bird is a reflection of his stature and calm.
Scott also positions Buffalo Bill and the birds on a stage-set surrounded by curtains. Many interpretations can be teased from this setting: Buffalo Bill pulling back the curtain behind his performances; or art and painting as a literal flat surface of paint, rather than a window into reality (pulling back the curtain on art). In addition, the composition and subject reference a major American 18th century painting by Charles Wilson Peale that depicted a self-portrait of the artist in his museum (the first museum in the United States).
| signature, lower left: Michael Scott | 2.12.jpg | Buffalo Bill | peacock | birds | Painting | oil on canvas | Scott, Michael